Commission: Susan Philipsz – SURROUND ME

Commission: Susan Philipsz – SURROUND ME

Artangel

An alleyway in the City of London, where SURROUND ME can be heard from 9 October. Photo by Julian Abrams.

September 23, 2010

An Artangel Commission

Susan Philipsz
SURROUND ME
A Song Cycle for the City of London

Various locations through the City of London
9 October 2010 – 2 January 2011
Saturdays & Sundays only, 10am–5pm

Every day of the working week, the City of London is alive to the sounds of trade, commerce and traffic. At the weekends, quiet descends on the offices, squares and streets of the City, broken only by the occasional sound of cars and the pealing of church bells.

The silence of the City has inspired SURROUND ME, 2010 Turner Prize nominee Susan Philipsz’s first commission in London, a constellation of sound installations in different spaces within the Square Mile. Philipsz’s haunting voice resonates through the hushed streets, across Modernist high-walks and tucked-away medieval alleyways, and along the banks of the River Thames…

The experience of the City at the weekend returns the pedestrian to the human scale and soundscape of the city in pre-industrial times. Intrigued by the pronounced role the voice would have had in the early modern city, Philipsz has drawn material for SURROUND ME from a large body of late 16th and early 17th century English popular songs, rounds and madrigals, brought together in collections by composers and arrangers such as Thomas Ravenscroft.

Philipsz’s solitary voice reverberates through both the public spaces of the City and a collective memory of song, animating what Peter Ackroyd called “the teeming silence” of the City.

Read more about the project on the Artangel website.

For press information please contact Janette Scott or Sarah Davies or call 020 7713 1400. Press information and images can be downloaded from the press section of the Artangel website.

Artangel

Advertisement
RSVP
RSVP for Commission: Susan Philipsz – SURROUND ME
Artangel
September 23, 2010

Thank you for your RSVP.

Artangel will be in touch.

Subscribe

e-flux announcements are emailed press releases for art exhibitions from all over the world.

Agenda delivers news from galleries, art spaces, and publications, while Criticism publishes reviews of exhibitions and books.

Architecture announcements cover current architecture and design projects, symposia, exhibitions, and publications from all over the world.

Film announcements are newsletters about screenings, film festivals, and exhibitions of moving image.

Education announces academic employment opportunities, calls for applications, symposia, publications, exhibitions, and educational programs.

Sign up to receive information about events organized by e-flux at e-flux Screening Room, Bar Laika, or elsewhere.

I have read e-flux’s privacy policy and agree that e-flux may send me announcements to the email address entered above and that my data will be processed for this purpose in accordance with e-flux’s privacy policy*

Thank you for your interest in e-flux. Check your inbox to confirm your subscription.